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Essay Galaxy - Montaigne's "On Some Lines of Virgil"
Montaigne's "On Some Lines of Virgil"
In his essay, "On Some Lines of Virgil", Montaigne assays the
nature of affairs of love entered into by women and men relating the nature
of the body and soul to that of language. He discusses things from the
importance of training the soul, to the ability of women to be as infidel
as men. Throughout his essay he maintains the outlook that bodily pleasure,
in mediation, should not be forsaken because of the soul. �For it is, as
they say, right the body should never follow its appetites to the prejudice
of the soul. Why is it not right, then, that the soul should not follow
hers to the prejudice of the body?� (Page 324.)
The relationship of the soul to the body is seen as one of a
student and teacher with the roles interchanging as it is consid....
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